De Wildt v. Thomson

The judgment from which the defendant-appellant, Charles M. Thomson, trustee of the Chicago & North Western Railway Company, appealed is for the recovery of damages for injury and the death of Sylvester De Wildt as the result of a collision between a passenger train and an automobile which plaintiff charges was caused by the combined negligence of Gaylord Lund, the engineer operating the train as appellant’s employee, and of Martin Vanden Hogan, the driver of the automobile on the front seat of which De Wildt was riding as a guest. Both were fatally injured. It is undisputed that the…